Achomawi

ca. 1900

Basket, burden, for seeds. Description: possibly Achomawi; twined; conical beargrass and black fiber; wide, rounded tip; two leather thongs on one side of tump line. Condition: good. Dimensions...

ca. 1900-1940

basket bowl, twined, Achomawi. "Possibly Achomawi or Atsugewi; this could be a copy of a lower Klamath River woman's cap - ca. 1900-1940." (Craig Bates, 7/91)

Basket, twined, (bowl). Squaw grass and redbud (?)

"Achomawi basket bowl made for sale to non-Indians." (Craig Bates, 7/91)

ca. 1900

Basket, twined bowl. Pit River type. Design in fern stems.

"Achomawi (poss. Atsugewi)."(LR,79)[vv,6/91]

"Achomawi basket bowl made with conifer root and maidenhair fern stem; made...

c. 1910

Full twist overlay twining has stair-stepped designs with elaborate geometric shapes around the base. It is unclear as to whether the basket was made by the Pit River Achumawi or Atsugewi.

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